THE BRIBIE ISLANDER
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FIRST ROAD BUILT ON BRIBIE ISLAND IN 1923
JULY 2016 - ISSUE 23
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get your cook on with Trish Moule
First avenue Originally named Campbell Rd., for the director of the tug company who had the road built from Bongaree to Woorim in 1923. It was planned to be a four lane road and steam tramway, but this did not eventuate although initially it was a toll road.
Turmeric Vegetables Buses at Bongaree Jetty 1925
Construction of the road to Ocean Beach. • On Bribie Island, a pioneer tourist industry was growing by 1913, but anyone disembarking from the SS Koopa and wishing to go to the surf beach at Woorim, had no real choice but to walk.
• Bill Shirley, having served with the Army engineers in World War I, came to Bribie Island to supervise the building of the a road to Ocean Beach. It was hard manual work and he camped with the workmen on the island. Returned servicemen were employed, some of whom were TPI pensioners.
• In 1914, Mr GP Campbell of the Brisbane Tug and Steamship Company, obtained the lease for a ‘right of way’ from Bongaree jetty to Woorim intending to provide a steam tram for passengers, but World War I interviened.
• With the completion of Campbell Road to Woorim in 1924, Bill Shirley converted work trucks into simple buses with plank seats, which became part of the Bribie Bus Line, conveying passengers from Bongaree Jetty to Woorim. • Bill Shirley was the local representative of the Tug & Steamship Company as well as the company’s toll collec-tor on this road, and with his family was proprietor of a large guest house at Woorim Beach.
• In 1923 Blake Brothers were contracted to supply and transport gravel and porphyry stone from a quarry at Windsor to a riverside wharf in Brisbane from where it was taken by ship to Bongaree.
pain, and colic. •4 Med potatoes, peeled and cut in wedges •2 carrots cut julienne or long wedges Sprinkle a great lot of salt over (it drains off) •C over with powered turmeric and let sit for as long as you can 2 hours is beneficial. When ready to cook, drain off all the excess juice (salt drains as well) and lightly sauté the potato and carrot until nearly soft, then add any vegie you desire, beans, cabbage, Bok choy, mushrooms, cook it all until nice and soft, add 2 tablespoons of ketchup Manis and 2 Tablespoons of Oyster sauce and you’re done!
Get your cook on (with Trish)
POLICE PROTECTION!
Roundabout at Jetty
• After the First World War, the Brisbane Tug & Steamship Company employed William (Bill) Shirley to supervise the building of the road between Bongaree and Woorim. This was initially named Campbell Road but later changed to First Avenue.
With winter knocking on our doors, I thought a perfect recipe to share with you all would be a healthy, warm vegetable dish. So I have chosen TURMERIC VEGETABLES which is such a versatile dish as it can be used as a side with a meat dish, or it’s a very tasty vegetarian/ vegan dish. Not to mention that TURMERIC is a known medicinal spice. Turmeric (Curcuma longa), the bright yellow of the spice rainbow, is a powerful medicine that has long been used in the Chinese and Indian systems of medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent to treat a wide variety of conditions: Including flatulence, jaundice, menstrual difficulties, bloody urine, hemorrhage, toothache, bruises, chest
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First road to Woorim 1924
• Tourism rapidly expanded and Bill Shirley was very active in promoting trips up the beach from Woorim to the lagoons.
Domestic Violence or family violence occurs when one person in a ‘relationship’ uses violent or abusive behaviour to control another. The behaviour which may be classified as domestic or family violence includes:
• Physical abuse • Damage to property • Sexual abuse • Verbal abuse • Harassment or intimidation • Financial abuse or • Threatening any of the above.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Information Support Options. Bribie Island Police Station: 07 3410 9222 Shirley building oceean road 1924
Horse unloading road metal 1923.
• A temporary wooden jetty was built at Bongaree to unload the road materials using a steam-driven derrick to lift the stone into the skip on the jetty. • Blake Brothers provided the trucks and men for the construction work. Lack of roads and bridges on the mainland, plus having to load trucks on to a cattle barge to cross Pumicestone Passage added to the difficulties of road building. • Owing to the nature of the sandy soil, workmen cut saplings to be laid across the track in corduroy fashion so that trucks and gravel didn’t sink into the sand.
• During World War 2 Bribie Island was of strategic importance to Australian Defences of Moreton Bay and Brisbane. It was a major training area for United States and Australian troops. The road across the island (First Avenue) was the artery from Pumicestone Passage to military installations on Ocean Beach. • First Avenue remains a vibrant part of island life linking Bongaree Village to the industrial and business area, recreation fields and to the surf club and village of Woorim
Bribie Island and District Neighbourhood Centre: 07 3408 8440 Caboolture Regional Domestic Violence Service Inc: 07 5498 9533 Dvconnect crisis referral line (women’s) 1800 811 811 Dvconnect crisis referral line (men’s) 1800 600 636 Caboolture Magistrates Court 07 5431 2200 Senior Sergeant Crawford Raby, Bribie Island Police Station.